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212 commissioners. They reported to the government as follows: —

In 1837 a committee of nine was appointed, among whom were Roux, Bouillaud, and Cloquet, who tested, in several sessions, the phenomena exhibited by a reputed clairvoyant. Their report expressed the results as follows: —

This report was adopted by the Royal Academy of Medicine in Paris.

My own observations of the workings of animal magnetism, during the past sixteen years, not only convince me that it is not a remedial agent, but that its pernicious effects upon the human mind and system exceed those of all other dangerous agents. It is a fundamental error.

If it seems to alleviate or cure disease, this appearance is deceptive, since error cannot remove the effects